KIEV, June 22 - The United States will allocate $220 million for the improvement of the work of the State Customs Service, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleksandr Sayenko said in an interview with Channel 5.

"The amount of $220 million has been confirmed during a meeting with Vice President [of the United States] Joseph Biden. We are speaking about three key goals on which these funds would be spent. One of them is reform of the customs service. First of all, the money from the U.S. will be spent on the purchase of equipment that allows to control and track the smuggling flows which today unfortunately manage to pass our customs checkpoints," Sayenko said.